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The Buzzword Bingo forum is a place to post examples of ludicrous,
convoluted and meaningless buzzwords and marketing drivel dreamed up by those seeking to sound
more important and meaningful than they actually are.

We are developers, which means our job is to simplify complicated and ill-expressed requirements
in order to produce something elegant and useful. If you want to impress us then please just tell it
to us straight. The less pre-processing we have to do the more we will be interested.

Typically said after I have looked down the road and proposed a feature that I think is really critical but is seen as time consuming, which it usually isn't.

"Let's make that a version 2 feature" = "I think that's a waste of time, or I don't understand it so I'm not going to buy in to it."

Um, and I just deployed version 3.5.1, so if you are going to shrug off my suggestions and try to make it look like you are in any way release-planning, at least act like you are planning an actual release.

does that mean 'stop working on it' in favour of more pressing work/projects ? - I worked in a place this happened all the time - sometimes projects got suspended & shoved so far to the back of the queue by the time they came around they wernt relevant and scrapped

Sounds like something the clown PMs I used to work with would say to their constituents describing their project management process. These clowns would talk Agile this, Agile that, and typically lead 1 meeting at the beginning of a project. Then about a day after the meeting I would typically receive an email from them with a memo like they were my best friend, a big fancy signature with PMP, CSM at the end of their name, the Project Plan (requirements of the entire project to them), and we'd start coding until we were done!